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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Finders Keepers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Ed lied about to the woman named Kent who gave him the letters?
(a) The worth of the letters.
(b) His occupation.
(c) The authenticity of the letters.
(d) His identity.

2. What happened to the letters?
(a) Ed ripped them up and dropped them into the sea.
(b) Ed buried them.
(c) Ed sealed them up and left them in an undisclosed location.
(d) Ed burned them.

3. What does Geoffrey ask Ed about the content of the letters?
(a) He asks if the letters proved Flaubert and Julie Herbert had an affair.
(b) He asked if Julie wrote about her children.
(c) He asked if Flaubert used the letters as the basis for any of his stories.
(d) He asks if Flaubert discussed death in his letters.

4. Geoffrey compares biographies to what objects?
(a) Desks.
(b) Nets.
(c) Trains.
(d) Photographs.

5. In what way is Felicite completely different from Flaubert?
(a) She takes lovers.
(b) She writes in a diary.
(c) She is inarticulate.
(d) She is lonely.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Geoffrey first meet Ed Winterton?

2. How did Flaubert first come to know Juliet Herbert?

3. What objects does Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of "Flaubert's Parrot," describe in the beginning of the book?

4. Although he had once thought of writing a book, what is Geoffrey's actual occupation?

5. Which condition best describes Flaubert at his death?

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